Construction World May 2021

John Deere’s purpose is to provide solutions to customers through mechanisation, technology and finance offerings. By leveraging the same technology, radio frequencies, and approvals as on the agricultural equipment, John Deere is ready to launch applicable precision technology on the construction equipment. Tailor-made financial solutions Apart from the hard iron and remarkable technology these machines are equipped with, John Deere helps with flexible, tailor-made financial solutions to customers as well. “We want to offer solutions on all business platforms, therefore we’re launching a separate and tailor-made John Deere Financial solution for construction and forestry equipment,” adds Antois van der Westhuizen, Managing Director for John Deere Financial in Africa. This marks a lifelong dream for John Deere Africa Middle East to bring the construction brand to their market. With this new addition, they will be able to build, clothe, feed and shelter Africa. For any queries or additional information, please send through your queries to africa@johndeere.com, or contact us at 011-437-2600. ▄

Pretoria and Kempton Park and at night they were on display as a live billboard for motorists to admire. John Deere and their dealers understand that downtime is not an option when it comes to a farmers operations. This mindset will be of a great advantage for their new customer base. Dealers are equipped to service machines at their dealer outlets, but to provide the quickest and best solution in order to decrease the waiting period of machines that have broken down onsite, dealer technicians are furnished with fully equipped service vehicles. Dealer outlets manage their parts inventory on a daily basis to ensure sufficient part are available on hand. A tremendous benefit that a John Deere customer has is the surety of parts availability. In 2010 John Deere erected a 20 000 m 2 regional parts distribution center in Kempton Park, Gauteng, South Africa. John Deere understands the importance of uptime and reliability, hence their decision to have a dedicated parts distribution center that is in close proximity of OR Tambo International Airport. This reduces lead time when parts need to be flown up into Africa. Expansion of product line This expansion to their product line includes backhoe loaders, excavators, wheel loaders, motor graders, and crawler dozers. A full range of products and advanced services will also be offered to forestry customers. Product offerings include skidders, feller bunchers, tracked harvesters, and forwarders. Managing Director for Senwes Equipment, Ferdie Pieterse, commented on the expansive product offering and the John Deere brand reputation for quality: “It provides us with the opportunity to build on the renowned product quality and performance, exceptional customer support and innovative equipment technologies.”

About John Deere Deere & Company (www.JohnDeere.com) is a world leader in providing advanced products, technology and services for customers whose work is revolutionising agriculture and construction – those who cultivate, harvest, transform, enrich and build upon the land to meet the world's increasing need for food, fuel, shelter and infrastructure.

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CONSTRUCTION WORLD MAY 2021